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Methods to prepare supplements from Hoodia gordonii plants

There are various ways of extracting the Hoodia gordonii from the herbs and the South African Bushmen are masters in this art. Generally they rejected the skin and peeled it off before eating the inner part of the plant. They thought it to be the most effective way of extracting it. It tastes bitter and the Bushmen put a piece of Hoodia extract in their mouths and chew it. This way they went through the day without thirst or hunger. Everybody cannot behave like a Bushman and we cannot go around chewing Hoodia extracts to suppress our appetite. We need to process the Hoodia extracts from the plants and then we can consume it.

Primarily there are three methods of extracting the Hoodia gordonii plants. They are generally found in the Kalahari Desert region of Africa. It is a desert which has extremes of climate both in the form of heat and chills at night. A method of extracting the Hoodia is to get hold of the molecule which actually suppresses hunger and it is known as the p57 molecule. A British company named Phytopharm extracted the appetite suppressing molecule and they gave the name p57 to it. The Phytopharm Company was selected from a patent given to the South African government. There are a total of thirteen different herbs which contain the molecule p 57 and Hoodia plant is just a single one out of them. The manufacturers of Viagra were deeply interested in this plant since it is believed that it has certain aphrodisiac qualities in them. Their aim was to manufacture a synthetic from of Hoodia and sell it in the market. Pfizer Company was in charge of these activities but they handed back the license to Phytopharm after they found that their efforts were not cost effective. Phytopharm is now in collaboration with the company Uniliver to launch slimming products by the year 2008. They want to make use of the p57 molecule so that it can be used in slimming products.

A second method of processing is to make a powder out of these plants and consume it in the form of a pill. Generally most of the products of Hoodia gordonii are in powder from.
An extract can also be prepared by taking just the extracts and rejecting the rest. A sample of concentration 20 to 1 and 10 to 1 is prepared in this way. It implies that 1 gram of extract is prepared from twenty grams of the Hoodia plant.

Off all these methods the most effective one is to prepare an extract in the liquid form and consume it. It works best and this way it also suppresses appetite faster. Pills take time to be digested inside the stomach. The powder from will not be that effective since it would contain scales, roots and the spine also which are not easy to assimilate inside the body.

Hoodia is a rare plant and this plant needs at least five years to mature and therefore it is a rare and protected plant.